{"id":3481,"date":"2021-05-25T14:50:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T04:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boomaroo.com\/?page_id=3481"},"modified":"2021-06-01T07:29:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T21:29:02","slug":"who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/boomaroo.com\/about-us\/who-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Who we are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Operating for over 30 years, Boomaroo is renowned for its premium-quality commercial seedlings, greenlife products, customer service and innovative approach to horticultural production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With facilities in both Lara, Victoria and Southbrook, Queensland, we supply fresh produce growers and greenlife retailers in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania. We are committed to developing long-term partnerships to deliver products tailored to our customers\u2019 specific needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boomaroo began as a small family market garden in Werribee. The Jacometti brothers identified that cell-grown transplantable seedlings offered produce growers significant benefits against the traditional direct seeding of crops in the paddock &#8211; including crop uniformity, yield and reduced production costs. This realisation would revolutionise the vegetable growing industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3489\" src=\"http:\/\/boomaroo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Who-we-are_banner-900x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boomaroo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Who-we-are_banner-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/boomaroo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Who-we-are_banner-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/boomaroo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Who-we-are_banner-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/boomaroo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Who-we-are_banner.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our state-of-the-art operations include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">20 hectares of specialised growing facilities across our Victorian and Queensland sites<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Industry leading automated handling systems enhancing quality, consistency, traceability, efficiency and reliability<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capability to produce up to 400 million vegetable seedlings annually across over 150 individual varieties<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capability to produce up to 2 million Greenlife potted plants across over 100 product lines grown in multiple pot formats<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A 120-person strong team of experienced and skilled growers, agronomists, auditors, technicians, territory managers and support staff to provide our products and services to the highest expectations set by our valued customers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An extensive distribution network that provides South Australian, Tasmanian and Eastern Seaboard coverage to our customers<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today, still a family business, Boomaroo has grown to become one of Australia\u2019s leading vegetable seedling and greenlife suppliers, and is an internationally recognised operator in the horticulture sector.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3591\" src=\"http:\/\/boomaroo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Who-we-are-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boomaroo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Who-we-are-03.jpg 900w, https:\/\/boomaroo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Who-we-are-03-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3519\" src=\"http:\/\/boomaroo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Who-we-are_internal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boomaroo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Who-we-are_internal.jpg 900w, https:\/\/boomaroo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Who-we-are_internal-768x250.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operating for over 30 years, Boomaroo is renowned for its premium-quality commercial seedlings, greenlife products, customer service and innovative approach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3489,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boomaroo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boomaroo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boomaroo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boomaroo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boomaroo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3481"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/boomaroo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3700,"href":"https:\/\/boomaroo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3481\/revisions\/3700"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boomaroo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boomaroo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boomaroo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}